How Round Is Your Circle? : : Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet /

How Round Is Your Circle? : : Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet / / Chris Sangwin, John Bryant.

How do you draw a straight line? How do you determine if a circle is really round? These may sound like simple or even trivial mathematical problems, but to an engineer the answers can mean the difference between success and failure. How Round Is Your Circle? invites readers to explore many of the s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Bryant, John,
Sangwin, Chris,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2008
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 30 color illus. 60 halftones. 180 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1. Hard Lines
  • Chapter 2. How to Draw a Straight Line
  • Chapter 3. Four-Bar Variations
  • Chapter 4. Building the World's First Ruler
  • Chapter 5. Dividing the Circle
  • Chapter 6. Falling Apart
  • Chapter 7. Follow My Leader
  • Chapter 8. In Pursuit of Coat-Hangers
  • Chapter 9. All Approximations Are Rational
  • Chapter 10. How Round Is Your Circle?
  • Chapter 11. Plenty of Slide Rule
  • Chapter 12. All a Matter of Balance
  • Chapter 13. Finding Some Equilibrium
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index

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